Animage organizerorimage management applicationisapplication software for organising digital images.[1][2] It is a kind of desktop organizer software application.
Image organizer software focuses on handling large numbers of images. In contrast to an image viewer, an image organizer can edit image tags and can often upload files to on-line hosting pages. Enterprises may use Digital Asset Management (DAM) solutions to manage larger and broader amounts of digital media.
Some programs that come with desktop environments, such as gThumb (GNOME) and digiKam (KDE) were originally simple image viewers, and have evolved into image organizers.
Many commercial image organizers offer both automatic and manual image organization features. A comparison of image viewers reveals that many free software packages are available that offer most of the organization features available in commercial software.
There are several imminent advances anticipated in the image organization domain which may soon allow widespread automatic assignment of keywords or image clustering based on image content:[4]
In general, these methods either:
Name | OS | Type | License | Metadata | Geotagging | Facial recognition |
Map display | Synchronizes with online library |
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ACDSee | Windows | Proprietary | Yes IPTC Exif XMP | Yes | Yes | Yes ≤ 25 GB to ACDSee online, flickr, SmugMug, and Zenfolio | Supports: >100 file formats, Unicode, batch processing, viewing contents of archives formats, non-destructive editing, DB export, R/W to CD, VCD, DVD. Contains: SMTP email client, FTP transport, duplicate file finder. | ||
Adobe Lightroom CC | Windows, macOS, iOS, Android and Web | cloud-based database | Proprietary | Yes | No | No | Yes | not compatible with Lightroom Classic CC[10] | |
Adobe Lightroom Classic CC | Windows and macOS | catalogue-managed local folders | Proprietary | Yes IPTC Exif XMP | Yes | Yes | Yes Flickr, PicasaWeb, Piwigo, SmugMug with plugins | Professional image management application database, asynchronously catalog DVD collections of 10,000's of photos. Has built-in RAW Editor that allows to edit RAW images in batch | |
Adobe Photoshop Album | Windows and macOS | Proprietary | Yes | No | No | discontinued in 2007, superseded by Elements Organizer | |||
Adobe Photoshop Elements Organizer | Windows and macOS | Proprietary | Yes Exif IPTC XMP | Yes | Yes | Yes Flickr, Vimeo, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Email | Component of Adobe Photoshop Elements. Also supports management and sharing of video clips. | ||
Aperture | macOS | local database | Proprietary | Yes Exif IPTC XMP | Yes | Yes | Yes iCloud, Flickr, Facebook, SmugMug | discontinued in 2015, superseded by Photos (Apple) | |
CodedColor PhotoStudio Pro | Windows | Proprietary | Yes IPTC | No | No | ||||
DBGallery | Windows | Cloud and On-premise | Proprietary | Yes IPTC Exif XMP | Yes | No | Yes | No | Team features such as version control and activity logging. Support for very large collections (millions). Accessed using web browsers. |
digiKam | KDE (Linux, macOS, Windows) | GPL | Yes IPTC Exif XMP | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes 23hq, Facebook, Flickr, Gallery2, Piwigo, SmugMug |
Image management application database, deals with collections of 100,000's of photos | |
Digital Photo Professional | Windows | Proprietary | |||||||
F-Spot | Linux | GPL | Yes | discontinued in 2017 | |||||
FastStone Image Viewer | Windows | Freeware | Yes Exif | ||||||
Fotostation | Windows, macOS | Proprietary | Yes | No | |||||
Geeqie | Linux | GPL | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | ||
Google Photos | iOS, Android and Web | Freeware | Yes IPTC | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Integrated with Google online tool suite. | |
gThumb | Linux | GPL | Yes | No | Yes | ||||
iPhoto | macOS | local database | Proprietary | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | discontinued in 2015, superseded by Photos (Apple) |
KPhotoAlbum | Linux | GPL | Yes | Yes | No * | Yes | No | * Has an option to tag faces on photo manually | |
Phase One Media Pro | Windows and macOS | Proprietary | Yes IPTC Exif XMP | No | No | No | discontinued in 2018, superseded by Capture One | ||
Photos (Apple) | macOS, iOS and Web | cloud-based database | Proprietary | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Default photo manager for macOS, iOS, tvOS, watchOS. Supports editing, iCloud, printing, sharing, searching. |
Photos (Windows) | Windows | Freeware | No | Yes | No | No | Default photo manager for Windows 8 and later. | ||
PicaJet | Windows | Proprietary | Yes Exif IPTC XMP | Yes Flickr, Fotki | Multi-user database access, unlimited category-nesting levels, hiding private images, supports for more than 60 image file formats | ||||
Picasa | Windows, macOS and Linux | Freeware | Yes IPTC | Yes | Yes | Yes (per folder) | Yes PicasaWeb | discontinued in 2016, superseded by Google Photos | |
Shotwell | Linux | LGPL | Yes Exif IPTC XMP | No | No | No | Yes Facebook, Flickr, PicasaWeb, Piwigo | non-destructive editing, one-click autoenhance | |
Shutterfly Studio | Windows | Freeware | Yes | ||||||
ViewMinder | Windows | Proprietary | discontinued in 2007 | ||||||
Windows Photo Gallery | Windows | Proprietary | Yes IPTC Exif XMP | Yes | Yes | Yes OneDrive, Facebook, Flickr, Inkubook plus more with plugins | discontinued in 2017, superseded by Photos (Windows) | ||
XnView | Windows, macOS and Linux | Freeware | Yes IPTC Exif | ||||||
Zoner Photo Studio | Windows | Proprietary | Yes Exif IPTC XMP | Yes | No | Using HTML templates |
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